Underfunded and Outshone: The Library Profession at ‘A Century of Progress’ International Exposition, Chicago, 1933–1934

Author:

Grossman Hal B1

Affiliation:

1. Hunter College Library City University of New York , USA

Abstract

‘A Century of Progress’ international exposition was a celebration of science, and its role in improving daily life, staged in 1933, the low point of the Great Depression. The leading exhibits represented large corporations or governments, but there were some library-related exhibits at the fair. This paper examines the exhibits staged or planned by the American Library Association, the Library of Congress, and Time, Incorporated. Unlike Time, Inc., the American Library Association and the Library of Congress were both hampered by a lack of funds. The two library organizations also failed to find a way to incorporate the theme of scientific progress in their exhibits, whereas Time, Inc. succeeded in using a library as an advertisement for its so-called invention, the weekly news magazine.

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Subject

History and Philosophy of Science

Reference73 articles.

1. There were other library and book-related exhibits at the fair that are not discussed here, such as a children’s library and story room, a model library of science, and an exhibit of the hundred best books by women .

2. Lenox R. Lohr, speech to the Midwest Power Engineering Conference, 9 February 1931, deposited in the University of Illinois at Chicago, Century of Progress Records, 1927–52 (hereafter CoP Records), Lenox R. Lohr Papers, box 20, folder 200 .

3. Sarah Wadsworth and Wayne A. Wiegand, Right Here I See My Own Books: The Women’s Building Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2012) .

4. See C. Ganz, The 1933 Chicago World’s Fair: A Century of Progress (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008), ch. 3 .

5. Lenox R. Lohr, speech to the Midwest Power Engineering Conference, 9 February 1931 .

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